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Book Deities  Emperors  Ladies  and Literati

Download or read book Deities Emperors Ladies and Literati written by Alice R. M. Hyland and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Deities  Emperors  Ladies and Literati  Figure Painting of the Ming and Qing Dynasties

Download or read book Deities Emperors Ladies and Literati Figure Painting of the Ming and Qing Dynasties written by Alice R.M. Hyland and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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  • Author : 上海博物館
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 188 pages

Download or read book written by 上海博物館 and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Issues of Authenticity in Chinese Painting

Download or read book Issues of Authenticity in Chinese Painting written by Judith G. Smith and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1999 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in conjunction with a December 1999 symposium held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and an exhibition, "The Artist as Collector: Masterpieces of Chinese Painting from the C.C. Wang Family Collection." Twelve contributions give dissenting opinions regarding a book recently published by The Museum titled Along the Riverbank, which seeks to attribute the painting called "Riverbank" to the 10th-century landscape master Dong Yuan--an attribution that would call for the rewriting of early Chinese painting history. This volume contains 239 bandw illustrations to support the contributors' efforts to explain their opinions. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book The Figurative Works of Chen Hongshou  1599 1652

Download or read book The Figurative Works of Chen Hongshou 1599 1652 written by Tamara Heimarck Bentley and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the importance of Chen Hongshou (1599-1652) as an artist and scholar of the late Ming period, until now no full length study in English has focused on his work. Author Tamara H. Bentley takes a broadly interdisciplinary approach, treating Chen's oeuvre in relation to literary themes and economic changes, and linking these larger concerns to visual analyses. In so doing, Bentley sheds new light not only on Chen, but also on an important cultural moment in the first half of the seventeenth century, when Chinese scholar artists began to direct their work towards anonymous public markets.

Book Chinese Femininities  Chinese Masculinities

Download or read book Chinese Femininities Chinese Masculinities written by Susan Brownell and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese Literature: Lydia H. Liu

Book Peking

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  • Author : Susan Naquin
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2001-01-15
  • ISBN : 9780520923454
  • Pages : 862 pages

Download or read book Peking written by Susan Naquin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-01-15 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central character in Susan Naquin's extraordinary new book is the city of Peking during the Ming and Qing periods. Using the city's temples as her point of entry, Naquin carefully excavates Peking's varied public arenas, the city's transformation over five centuries, its human engagements, and its rich cultural imprint. This study shows how modern Beijing's glittering image as China's great and ancient capital came into being and reveals the shifting identities of a much more complex past, one whose rich social and cultural history Naquin splendidly evokes. Temples, by providing a place where diverse groups could gather without the imprimatur of family or state, made possible a surprising assortment of community-building and identity-defining activities. By revealing how religious establishments of all kinds were used for fairs, markets, charity, tourism, politics, and leisured sociability, Naquin shows their decisive impact on Peking and, at the same time, illuminates their little-appreciated role in Chinese cities generally. Lacking most of the conventional sources for urban history, she has relied particularly on a trove of commemorative inscriptions that express ideas about the relationship between human beings and gods, about community service and public responsibility, about remembering and being remembered. The result is a book that will be essential reading in the field of Chinese studies for years to come.

Book Marriage and Inequality in Chinese Society

Download or read book Marriage and Inequality in Chinese Society written by Rubie S. Watson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1991-04-02 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until now our understanding of marriage in China has been based primarily on observations made during the twentieth century. The research of ten eminent scholars presented here provides a new vision of marriage in Chinese history, exploring the complex interplay between marriage and the social, political, economic, and gender inequalities that have so characterized Chinese society.

Book The Figurative Works of Chen Hongshou  1599 652

Download or read book The Figurative Works of Chen Hongshou 1599 652 written by TamaraHeimarck Bentley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the importance of Chen Hongshou (1599-1652) as an artist and scholar of the Ming period, until now no full length study in English has focused on his work. Author Tamara H. Bentley takes a broadly interdisciplinary approach, treating Chen's oeuvre in relation to literary themes and economic changes, and linking these larger concerns to visual analyses. Considering Chen's paintings and prints alongside Chen's romance drama commentaries and prefaces and his collected writings (particularly poetry), Bentley sheds new light not only on Chen, but also on an important cultural moment in the first half of the seventeenth century. Through analysis of Chen's figure paintings and print designs, Bentley examines the artist's engagement with the values of "authenticity" and "emotion," which were part of a larger discourse stressing idiosyncrasy, the individual voice, and vernacular literature. She contrasts these values with the commercial aspects of his production, geared at an expanding art market of well-to-do buyers, excavating the apparent contradiction inherent in the two pursuits. In the end, she suggests, the emphasis on the "authentic" voice was marketed to a broad field of anonymous buyers. Though her primary focus is on Chen Hongshou, Bentley's investigation ultimately concerns not only this individual artist, but also the effect of early modern changes on an artist's mode of working and his self-image, in the West as well as the East. The study touches upon expanding international trade and the rise of middle class art markets (including print markets), not only in China but also in the Dutch Republic in circa 1630-1650. Bentley investigates the specific rhetoric of different categories of images, including Chen's non-literal figurative works; literal commemorative portraits; his printed romance-drama illustrations; and his printed playing cards. Bentley's investigation takes in issues of studio practice (including various types of image replicati

Book Fruitful Sites

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  • Author : Craig Clunas
  • Publisher : Reaktion Books
  • Release : 2013-06-01
  • ISBN : 178023158X
  • Pages : 242 pages

Download or read book Fruitful Sites written by Craig Clunas and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gardens are sites that can be at one and the same time admired works of art and valuable pieces of real estate. As the first account in English to be wholly based on contemporary Chinese sources, this beautifully illustrated book grounds the practices of garden-making in Ming Dynasty China (1369–1644) firmly in the social and cultural history of the day. Who owned gardens? Who visited them? How were they represented in words, in paintings and in visual culture generally, and what meanings did these representations hold at different levels of Chinese society? Drawing on a wide range of recent work in cultural theory, Craig Clunas provides for the first time a historical and materialist account of Chinese garden culture, and replaces broad generalizations and orientalist fantasy with a convincing picture of the garden's role in social life.

Book Self as Image in Asian Theory and Practice

Download or read book Self as Image in Asian Theory and Practice written by Roger T. Ames and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1998-04-30 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores, from a cross-cultural viewpoint and in terms of symbolic expression, the self's problematic relationship to language and art and to the culture embedding the language and art.

Book Latter Days of the Law

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  • Author : Patricia Ann Berger
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • Release : 1994-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780824816629
  • Pages : 486 pages

Download or read book Latter Days of the Law written by Patricia Ann Berger and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Imagery of the Orchid Pavilion Gathering  Visualizing Tokugawa Cultural Networks

Download or read book Imagery of the Orchid Pavilion Gathering Visualizing Tokugawa Cultural Networks written by Kazuko Kameda-Madar and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the diverse visual representations of the Orchid Pavilion Gathering produced during the Edo period Japan.

Book The Cambridge History of China

Download or read book The Cambridge History of China written by and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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  • Author : T. June Li
  • Publisher : Huntington Library Press
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 164 pages

Download or read book written by T. June Li and published by Huntington Library Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautifully illustrated volume provides an in-depth look at some of the key works in the Wan-go H. C. Weng Collection of Chinese painting and calligraphy. Weng Tonghe (1830-1904), who gathered the greater part of the collection, was a preeminent statesman and scholar of late Qing-dynasty China, and the masterworks he collected reflect the refined taste of the scholars of his time. Weng's great-greatgrandson Wan-go H. C. Weng--the collection's current owner-- brought it to the United States for safekeeping in 1948. The fifty-one works reproduced in this catalogue, on exhibit at the Huntington in spring 2009, range from the twelfth century to the twentieth, and represent such renowned artists as Shen Zhou, Wen Zhengming, Dong Qichang, Wang Jian, Wang Hui, Wang Yuanqi, and other important painters and calligraphers. The exhibition is based on an exhibit organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in 2007.

Book The Eccentric Painters of Yangzhou

Download or read book The Eccentric Painters of Yangzhou written by Vito Giacalone and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: